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To: John Koligman who wrote (50271)	3/9/1998 5:15:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

James - Trying to be funny? No, we know why they use Intel, no one else makes a lap top chip that works well, is that funny or just the truth ? You think business won't buy non-Intel chips if they are sold by major boxmakers? Of course they will just look at CPQ's record. I think you are dead wrong. About ? You asked a ?, I didn't answer it and I am dead wrong ? Calm down. May never happen due to cost of entry and Intel's market share, but you can bet some big chip consumers out there will do as much as they can to help it along... Your desire I suspect. PS - Look, I admire Intel as much as the next guy or gal, but when folks say a chip consumer is a 'bad guy' for not going with Intel, come on! I hear comments like 'CPQ really messed up the PC business, didn't they'. The translation is 'CPQ really messed up Intel's profit machine, didn't they'. Seems they messed up each others and I might add who stepped up and came clean with the news 1st. I own both CPQ and Intel so I don't blast either. jim

To: John Koligman who wrote (50271)	3/9/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

John, >> "Just think what occurs if Intel's competition ever gets it's act together. You think business won't buy non-Intel chips if they are sold by major boxmakers?" I'll join in with the chorus that is saying that the vast majority of businesses won't buy non-Intel. My particular reason is because unless Intel's competition improves yields, quality and reliability, most savvy customers won't touch them. My PC vendor, while not a Compaq or Dell, is still not a Mom and Pop operation. They have told us several times that, unless we want to risk not making shipments to our customers, because they, our PC vendor can't get CPU chips, don't stray from Intel. I can just see myself on the carpet in the CEO's office trying to explain why I caused lost shipments of a few multi-million dollar mainframes, because I specified AMD or Cyrix for our system console. Tony ps: Availability is a problem with both of Intel's competing chip vendors. That, plus reliability and quality problems plagues one of them.